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And I was the last one.

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With the sunlight
coming through the trees,

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I looked down into the hole

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and there's a metal plate.

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It didn't say,
"Her Royal Highness,

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The Princess of Wales."

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It said, "Diana,
Princess of Wales."

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I thought why couldn't they,
in the last moment,

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have given her back
her title.

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It wouldn't have hurt anyone.

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So, I picked up some
of the earth and threw
it into the hole.

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And that's,
that's where
my life was.

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I could remember
begging her saying,

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"Why didn't you take me
with you?"

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My name is Paul Burrell.

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For 21 years, I looked after
the British Royal Family.

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For 11 years,
I looked after
Her Majesty the Queen

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and for the following
ten years, Princess Diana.

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I was born
in a coal-mining community,

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in the North of England

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in a little tiny village
called Grassmoor

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near Chesterfield
in Derbyshire.

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And my fate
was to be a coal miner

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like my grandfather,
like my father
and my brothers.

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I didn't want
to go down the mine.

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I didn't want
to go down the pit

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and come back
every day black.

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I saw my grandfather
die with emphysema.

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I knew it was a dangerous job

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and, as a child
I didn't like to get
my hands dirty.

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So I thought, "No,
I've got to escape
this world."

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I left school
when I was 16 years old

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with no qualifications

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and I went to the local
catering college.

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Whilst I was studying
Hotel Management,

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the principal of the college said to me, "They are looking for boys like you

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to train
at Buckingham Palace.

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Would you like
to go for an interview?"

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So I thought,
"That would be interesting."

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So, went for the interview

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and I got the job.

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And at the age of 18,

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I arrived at those
famous gates.

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Wasn't the first time I being to Buckingham Palace.

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As a small child,

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I stood in front
of the railings watching
the Changing of the Guard.

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I was only eight years old

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and I turned to father
and said,

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"One day I am going
to work here."

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And he ruffled my hair and said,"Yeah, sure you are."

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A coal miner's son
from the North of England,

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I don't think so.

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But at the age of 18,

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I arrived
at the Tradesman's entrance
to Buckingham Palace

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and began my new life

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at that very famous residence.

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I remember the first night,

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in my bed,

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looking at my uniforms,

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thinking, "Is this real?"

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Pinching myself,

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thinking,
"This is just fantasy."

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It can't be true.

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But it was true.

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Within the first year
of my service

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in the royal household,

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I was one of 20
household footmen.

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Right at the bottom.

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The Queen spotted me

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and she said
to the palace steward,

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"I like that young man,

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that one that's always smiling.

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What's his name?"

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And the palace steward
said to the Queen,

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"He's Paul, Your Majesty.
He's our latest recruit."

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"Would you send him upstairs?

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I'd like to take
a closer look."

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So I was summoned
into Her Majesty's presence

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Just for one day.

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At breakfast that morning,

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we had sausages.

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And I thought,

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the Queen's going to ask me
to take her dogs for a walk
in the garden.

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So I stuffed
my tailcoat pocket
with sausages.

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I went upstairs to see
the Queen for the day.

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"Would you like
to take these dogs
out for walk, Paul?"

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"I'd love to, Your Majesty."

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"Let's see how you
get along with them."

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In those days, the Queen
had nine corgis

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living with her
inside the palace.

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I still remember watching
those net drapes twitch
as she watched me

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running through the gardens
with the dogs.

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Of course,
the dogs loved me.

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The Queen to this day
never knew

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that I had a pocket
full of sausages.

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So my career was set.

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She liked me. She said
she'd keep me.

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And she kept me for 11 years.

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And I traveled
all around the world.

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Where ever she went,
I went.

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Who she met, I met.

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What she ate, I ate.

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So, what a colorful life I had.

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The first airplane
I ever flew on
was Concorde.

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We took Concorde
to Saudi Arabia.

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The first ship
I ever sailed on,

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wasn't the Queen Elizabeth II.

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It was Royal Yacht Britannia.

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So, I went around the world
with the Queen.

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Saw presidents,
kings and queens,
princes and princesses.

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It was very interesting
and formative time for me.

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And the queen became
a sort of surrogate mother
to me.

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And she told me
much about her life,

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and her history

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and she taught me
how to speak properly.

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So where did life take me?

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It took me to all
the royal residences.

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To Buckingham palace,
Windsor Castle,

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Sandringham, Balmoral

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and onboard
Royal Yacht Britannia.

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In the summer of 1980,

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the Queen told me
that a young girl was to come
to stay for the weekend.

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"Would you meet her
at the front door
and show her her room?"

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"Of course, Your Majesty."

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So I am standing
in the front hallway

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of Balmoral Castle
on the black and white tiles,

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waiting for this car
to arrive.

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And out of the car comes
a shy, young girl

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that nobody knew
who she was.

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She had one little suitcase
in the back.

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"Is that all you brought
with you?"

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You are here for the weekend.

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You have to go
to hunting, shooting.

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You have to go
to Ghillies Ball,

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tea parties, lunch parties.

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And that's all you have."

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She says, "Will it do?"

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I think we better take you
to the room and find out.

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I showed her to her room.

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"Would you stay for a while
and have a chat with me?

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I am completely
out of my depth,"
she says.

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So I stayed.
"What time do you
go down for tea?"

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"Four o'clock.

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You go down
to the small drawing room.

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The Queen will pour you
a cup of tea.

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"I don't like tea."

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"I'll make sure
she has coffee there
waiting for you."

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"Then what happens?"

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I said, "When tea
is cleared, you go
into the drawing room.

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And then the Queen
will pour you gin and tonic."

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"I don't drink."

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"I'll make sure
there's a glass of water
there for you."

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"Then what happens?"

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"Then the Queen plays cards
on her card table.

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Do you play Bridge?"

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"Yes."

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"Then make sure you are sat
at the card table to play
Bridge with the Queen.

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That's a good way
to get to know
Her Majesty.

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Then the Queen will take
the dogs into the garden.

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Maybe you could suggest
you went for a walk
with her.

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Also a good time
to get Her Majesty's ear.

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That's what you want to do."

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This young girl
was fascinated
by this routine

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of royal households.

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And as I close
the door that day,

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I noticed the name
on the door.

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Lady Diana Spencer.

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[interviewer] Do you find it
a very daunting experience

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that yesterday you were a nanny
looking after the children,

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now you are about to marry
Prince of Wales and,

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and one day you could,
in all likelihood,
be a Queen?

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It is a tremendous change
for someone to be 19

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to make all of a sudden
a transition.

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It is but I have had a small
run up to all this

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in the last six months.

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And, next to Prince Charles,
I can't go wrong.

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He's there with me.

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[interviewer]
I can see the ring.
Let us have a look at it.

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Yes.

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Such a wonderful
sapphire diamond.

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[interviewer] When,
when did you get engaged?
Just last night?

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Last Sunday.

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[interviewer] And,
but not wearing it yesterday?

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[Diana] No, no.
I kept it hidden.

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And I was absolutely determined
that this was going to be

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as near a secret as possible
on the actual day.

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It was my ambition.

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[interviewer] But you both
must be awfully excited

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and it must be awfully
difficult to keep it
as a secret.

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-Yes.
-Very good for us.

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-Very good--
-A good practice?

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[laughs] Yes.

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And good for the people
we told to.

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Quite interesting to see
who can keep secrets.

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[Paul] One year later,

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you saw that woman
become a royal princess

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in this cathedral
behind me.

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-[low crowd cheering]
-[Paul] St. Paul Cathedral
was the setting.

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The most watched event
in human history

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was her wedding day.

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[crowd cheering]

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[Paul] The longest train
in royal history.

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The most creased dress
in royal history.

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But the princess
was brimming with hope
and love for the future.

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I, Diana Frances...

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[priest] Take thee,
Charles Phillip Arthur George...

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[Diana] Take thee,
Charles Phillip Arthur George...

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[priest] ...to my
wedded husband.

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[Diana] ...to my
wedded husband.

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[Paul] She fell in love
with her prince.

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And there they were,
a golden couple.

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And a year later,

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that was completed
by William arriving.

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[scattered applause]

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[interviewer]
Does Prince William
have a favorite toy?

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[indistinct whisper]

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Um, Jamie, he loves
his koala bear he's got.

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But he hasn't got
anything particular.

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He just likes something
with a bit of a noise.

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[whispers] Plastic whales
with...

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Uh, he's got a plastic whale
that throws things at the top,
little balls.

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[all laughing]

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[Paul] During this time,
of course,

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Diana was visiting
Balmoral Sandringham

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and all the royal residencies.

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Actually got to know me
very well.

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I remember her showing me
the honeymoon pictures.

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I remember her telling me
that she was carrying
another baby

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which was Harry
and she pushed me
into the dinning room,

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"Put your hand
on my tummy,"
she said.

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I said, "No, I can't do that.

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You are a royal princess."

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She took my hand
and placed it
on the tummy,

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"Can you feel that?"
she said.

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And a little kick.

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She says, "It's a boy."

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[gasps] "You shouldn't
have told me that.

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That is a state secret.

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Now, if it gets out,
you'll blame me."

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She says,
"But I am trusting you
with that secret."

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That was the first time
she had actually
trusted me.

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[indistinct conversation]

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Granny was christened
in this.

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-Great grandmother.
-Great granny.

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And I was.

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I was christened
in this.

250
00:12:04,793 --> 00:12:06,001
[William] Hmm.

251
00:12:06,035 --> 00:12:07,899
Looks remarkably well
despite how old it is.

252
00:12:09,798 --> 00:12:10,764
[Charles] How is he?

253
00:12:10,799 --> 00:12:12,041
Must be incredibly hot
inside there, isn't it?

254
00:12:12,076 --> 00:12:13,180
[Diana] Yes.

255
00:12:13,215 --> 00:12:14,734
[Charles] He's dribbling.
You might...

256
00:12:19,255 --> 00:12:20,463
[baby coos]

257
00:12:21,568 --> 00:12:23,777
[Paul] She began
trusting me with more.

258
00:12:23,812 --> 00:12:26,746
Telling me that her marriage
wasn't all it should be.

259
00:12:26,780 --> 00:12:28,886
"I need somebody
like you, Paul.

260
00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:30,888
I need somebody like you
for the future."

261
00:12:31,889 --> 00:12:33,269
[indistinct chatter]

262
00:12:33,822 --> 00:12:35,755
Here. Zara.

263
00:12:36,307 --> 00:12:38,274
Zara. Where's Zara?

264
00:12:38,309 --> 00:12:39,828
-Zara!
-Look.

265
00:12:40,311 --> 00:12:42,037
[baby crying]

266
00:12:42,071 --> 00:12:43,832
[Paul] " I've got no one
I could trust in.

267
00:12:44,936 --> 00:12:46,489
Would you think about
leaving the Queen

268
00:12:46,524 --> 00:12:48,250
and come work
for me?"

269
00:12:48,284 --> 00:12:50,804
Now, I had the best job
in the world.

270
00:12:50,839 --> 00:12:52,841
I wasn't about to leave
the Queen of England.

271
00:12:54,152 --> 00:12:55,809
"If you come
and live with me,

272
00:12:55,844 --> 00:12:57,397
I'll give you
a beautiful cottage

273
00:12:57,431 --> 00:12:59,744
in the countryside
at Highgrove.

274
00:12:59,779 --> 00:13:02,782
And you, and your
two children and your wife,

275
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can grow with my family
and William and Harry.

276
00:13:05,370 --> 00:13:07,925
And we'll be just
one big happy family.

277
00:13:07,959 --> 00:13:08,995
Think about it.

278
00:13:09,029 --> 00:13:11,480
Life would be
much better for you.

279
00:13:11,514 --> 00:13:12,792
The standard would be higher."

280
00:13:13,965 --> 00:13:15,898
I thought about it.

281
00:13:15,933 --> 00:13:19,177
I thought
it was a bright future
for my family.

282
00:13:19,212 --> 00:13:21,007
But how do you tell
the Queen of England

283
00:13:21,041 --> 00:13:22,353
that you are going
to leave her?

284
00:13:22,387 --> 00:13:24,838
[inhales sharply]
Wasn't easy.

285
00:13:24,873 --> 00:13:27,979
So, I took my moment
to Balmoral and she stood

286
00:13:28,014 --> 00:13:30,810
by the log-fire
warming her bottom,

287
00:13:30,844 --> 00:13:32,535
and all the dogs were asleep.

288
00:13:32,570 --> 00:13:34,296
"Your Majesty, I have got something to discuss with you.

289
00:13:34,330 --> 00:13:37,955
And I don't know
quite how to tell you this."

290
00:13:37,989 --> 00:13:41,061
"What is it, Paul?",
she said hopping from
one foot to the other.

291
00:13:41,579 --> 00:13:42,373
"Well..."

292
00:13:43,339 --> 00:13:45,031
She could see
I was struggling.

293
00:13:45,065 --> 00:13:46,964
"You don't have to tell me,"
she said.

294
00:13:46,998 --> 00:13:48,655
"Charles has already
told me.

295
00:13:49,345 --> 00:13:50,864
And think of it this way,

296
00:13:50,899 --> 00:13:52,970
you are not actually
leaving me,

297
00:13:53,004 --> 00:13:56,042
you are just moving
to one side for a short time.

298
00:13:56,076 --> 00:13:57,802
And when I am dead
and gone,

299
00:13:57,837 --> 00:13:59,873
and Charles and Diana
are king and queen,

300
00:13:59,908 --> 00:14:02,462
you'll be back here
doing the same job.

301
00:14:02,496 --> 00:14:04,326
So you just go full circle.

302
00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,500
And you're leaving
for the best of reasons,

303
00:14:06,535 --> 00:14:09,331
honorable reasons,
for your family.

304
00:14:09,365 --> 00:14:13,231
But be careful, Paul,
because it's not all
it seems."

305
00:14:13,922 --> 00:14:15,993
And that little warning,

306
00:14:16,027 --> 00:14:19,030
sort of echoed in my ears
as I left Buckingham Palace

307
00:14:19,065 --> 00:14:22,171
and went to work
at Highgrove House
in Gloucestershire.

308
00:14:22,206 --> 00:14:24,380
Now, the royal marriage
was falling apart

309
00:14:25,105 --> 00:14:27,245
and I was Diana's man

310
00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,076
placed strategically
at Highgrove.

311
00:14:30,110 --> 00:14:33,424
Placed there to keep
the house in order

312
00:14:33,458 --> 00:14:36,496
but also be there
for Diana,

313
00:14:36,530 --> 00:14:39,637
to be there as "her rock,"
she later called me.

314
00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,503
It was difficult
for me to tred the path

315
00:14:43,537 --> 00:14:46,920
between Prince Charles
and Princess Diana.

316
00:14:46,955 --> 00:14:50,061
Lady Diana arrived
every weekend
with the boys

317
00:14:50,096 --> 00:14:53,168
on Friday afternoon
and left every Sunday.

318
00:14:53,202 --> 00:14:56,861
But someone else
occupied that space
in between.

319
00:14:56,896 --> 00:15:00,416
And I learned to serve
two royal mistresses.

320
00:15:01,072 --> 00:15:03,385
One, Princess of Wales

321
00:15:03,419 --> 00:15:05,905
and the other,
Mrs. Parker Bowles.

322
00:15:06,802 --> 00:15:08,908
This was still a secret.

323
00:15:08,942 --> 00:15:12,601
I was keeping this secret
for both the Prince
and the Princess.

324
00:15:12,635 --> 00:15:15,397
Until, of course,
it became intolerable.

325
00:15:15,431 --> 00:15:18,434
And the royal couple
decided to split.

326
00:15:18,469 --> 00:15:20,471
And Prince Charles
said to Princess Diana,

327
00:15:20,505 --> 00:15:22,438
"Make a list of everything
you want.

328
00:15:22,473 --> 00:15:23,612
Do you want the clock?

329
00:15:23,646 --> 00:15:25,441
Do you want
the dining room table?

330
00:15:25,476 --> 00:15:27,305
Do you want the silver?
What do you want?

331
00:15:27,340 --> 00:15:29,721
Just have whatever you want."

332
00:15:29,756 --> 00:15:31,447
So Diana went away
to make the list.

333
00:15:31,482 --> 00:15:34,071
And on top of the list,
she put my name.

334
00:15:34,968 --> 00:15:36,418
"You can't have Paul.

335
00:15:36,452 --> 00:15:38,109
Paul came from my Mumma."

336
00:15:38,144 --> 00:15:39,973
"I need him for the future."

337
00:15:40,008 --> 00:15:41,975
"You have to take
Paul off the list."

338
00:15:42,010 --> 00:15:45,910
"No chance. You said
I could have anything
I wanted.

339
00:15:45,945 --> 00:15:47,567
And I'm taking Paul."

340
00:15:47,601 --> 00:15:50,984
So, along with table
and the clock and the sofa,

341
00:15:51,019 --> 00:15:52,296
I was sent back to London.

342
00:15:53,021 --> 00:15:54,815
And yet a new life began

343
00:15:54,850 --> 00:15:58,578
as the Princess' butler
at Kensington Palace.

344
00:15:58,612 --> 00:16:03,410
I was with her
for ten years in total.

345
00:16:03,445 --> 00:16:06,103
And began traveling
with her around the word.

346
00:16:06,137 --> 00:16:07,863
To Angola, to Bosnia,

347
00:16:08,484 --> 00:16:10,624
to far-reach countries.

348
00:16:10,659 --> 00:16:14,352
People, searching out
people who were less
fortunate than we were.

349
00:16:14,387 --> 00:16:18,080
People who needed
their plight heightened

350
00:16:18,115 --> 00:16:21,256
by an incredible icon
of our times.

351
00:16:21,290 --> 00:16:24,535
So, I witnessed
that first hand.

352
00:16:25,570 --> 00:16:28,332
I remember going
to a hospital in Bosnia

353
00:16:28,366 --> 00:16:31,128
where a little girl
had been blown up
by a landmine.

354
00:16:31,162 --> 00:16:35,028
She'd been into the field
to retrieve her brother's
football.

355
00:16:35,063 --> 00:16:37,341
And she'd been blown up
and lost her legs.

356
00:16:38,756 --> 00:16:40,171
She was critically ill.

357
00:16:40,206 --> 00:16:41,966
And the Princess
sat by the bed

358
00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:43,140
and held her hand

359
00:16:43,174 --> 00:16:45,487
and this little girl
couldn't understand English.

360
00:16:46,488 --> 00:16:49,146
And then the Princess left.

361
00:16:49,180 --> 00:16:52,563
The little girl
opened her eyes and said
to the nurse in her language,

362
00:16:53,391 --> 00:16:54,772
"I've just seen an angel."

363
00:16:57,706 --> 00:17:00,812
You see, I saw
that gift of humanity

364
00:17:00,847 --> 00:17:03,194
the Princess brought
to these people.

365
00:17:04,609 --> 00:17:07,095
To people torn apart
by war.

366
00:17:08,406 --> 00:17:12,410
And that's a point
to which I often refer
because,

367
00:17:12,445 --> 00:17:16,587
that one moment
of humanity

368
00:17:16,621 --> 00:17:18,520
changed my life.

369
00:17:18,554 --> 00:17:21,074
And I saw the Princess
in a different light.

370
00:17:21,626 --> 00:17:22,903
I saw her

371
00:17:23,421 --> 00:17:25,078
as beautiful inside

372
00:17:25,734 --> 00:17:27,115
as she was outside.

373
00:17:28,116 --> 00:17:30,083
What an incredible
human being.

374
00:17:30,118 --> 00:17:32,879
We will never see
the likes of her again.

375
00:17:32,913 --> 00:17:36,607
So, my life with her
was filled with fun,

376
00:17:36,641 --> 00:17:38,954
with happiness,
with drama,

377
00:17:40,231 --> 00:17:41,543
controversy,

378
00:17:43,269 --> 00:17:45,133
and lots of things
happened in those
ten years.

379
00:17:46,548 --> 00:17:50,276
Mrs. Parker Bowles
is a great friend of mine.

380
00:17:50,310 --> 00:17:54,866
And I have a large number
of friends I am terribly lucky
to have.

381
00:17:54,901 --> 00:17:57,593
The Prince of Wales
had just been on TV

382
00:17:57,628 --> 00:18:00,734
to admit adultery
with Camilla Parker Bowles

383
00:18:00,769 --> 00:18:03,116
and Princess that evening
was due to go out

384
00:18:03,151 --> 00:18:07,086
to the Serpentine Gallery
to see her old friend,
Lord Colombo.

385
00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:09,191
When marriages break down,

386
00:18:09,226 --> 00:18:12,677
awful, miserable as it is,

387
00:18:12,712 --> 00:18:15,094
that so often you know
that it is your friends

388
00:18:15,128 --> 00:18:17,544
who are the most important.

389
00:18:17,579 --> 00:18:19,753
"I can't go.
I'm not going.

390
00:18:19,788 --> 00:18:23,378
I'm not going.
It will be too humiliating.

391
00:18:23,412 --> 00:18:27,796
The whole world now knows
that Charles has been
having an affair.

392
00:18:27,830 --> 00:18:28,624
He's admitted it."

393
00:18:29,384 --> 00:18:31,179
"You are going," I said.

394
00:18:31,213 --> 00:18:32,628
"I have got nothing
to wear."

395
00:18:32,663 --> 00:18:34,941
"Yes, you have got
something to wear."

396
00:18:34,975 --> 00:18:36,356
I went up to her
wardrobe room

397
00:18:36,391 --> 00:18:38,945
and picked out
a Christina Strambolian dress
with a fishtail.

398
00:18:39,980 --> 00:18:42,190
"This is what
you are going to wear,"
I said.

399
00:18:42,224 --> 00:18:45,641
"I can't fit into it."
"Yes, you can.
Put it on."

400
00:18:45,676 --> 00:18:46,884
So, she slipped it on.

401
00:18:46,918 --> 00:18:49,197
"Now, to compliment that
I think we should have

402
00:18:49,231 --> 00:18:51,164
the pearl choker
and the sapphire.

403
00:18:51,199 --> 00:18:52,303
That's all you need.

404
00:18:52,338 --> 00:18:54,857
High heels
and those jaws."

405
00:18:55,651 --> 00:18:56,583
"Right." She put them on

406
00:18:56,618 --> 00:18:58,620
and she looked
a million dollars.

407
00:18:58,654 --> 00:19:01,209
"Remember, when you
go out there," I said,

408
00:19:01,243 --> 00:19:04,108
"you stride, you hold
your head high,

409
00:19:04,143 --> 00:19:07,525
you smile, you engage,
firm handshake.

410
00:19:08,630 --> 00:19:10,183
Say to yourself,

411
00:19:10,218 --> 00:19:14,394
'I'm Diana, Princess of Wales
and I'm here to say.

412
00:19:14,429 --> 00:19:17,673
I'm the mother
of the future king
of England.'

413
00:19:17,708 --> 00:19:18,950
Say it to yourself.

414
00:19:20,366 --> 00:19:21,194
Say it."

415
00:19:21,229 --> 00:19:22,678
So she said it,

416
00:19:22,713 --> 00:19:25,233
she went out there.
She did it.

417
00:19:25,267 --> 00:19:28,339
I saw it on the news
and I wrote her
a little note.

418
00:19:28,374 --> 00:19:30,134
I put it on the pillow
that night.

419
00:19:30,169 --> 00:19:32,447
"Well done, girl.
You did it."

420
00:19:33,310 --> 00:19:35,415
That's what I was there for.

421
00:19:35,450 --> 00:19:37,314
I was there to support her,

422
00:19:37,348 --> 00:19:40,765
to be there as a friend,
as a confidant,

423
00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:42,802
and above that,

424
00:19:42,836 --> 00:19:46,185
a sort of a father figure
and a brother all rolled
into one.

425
00:19:46,219 --> 00:19:50,154
My role became more and more and more as the years passed.

426
00:19:50,913 --> 00:19:52,501
She called me, "Her rock."

427
00:19:52,536 --> 00:19:55,849
She said, "You are the only man I've ever really trusted.

428
00:19:56,678 --> 00:19:58,645
You are the captain
of my ship.

429
00:19:59,853 --> 00:20:03,202
Without you," she wrote,
"we'd all be lost."

430
00:20:04,410 --> 00:20:06,239
[indistinct conversation]

431
00:20:16,939 --> 00:20:21,358
I was told long time ago,
I'd backed the loser.

432
00:20:21,392 --> 00:20:23,360
I'd gone with the one
who'd be forgotten.

433
00:20:24,430 --> 00:20:27,226
And here we are,
20 years later,

434
00:20:27,260 --> 00:20:29,228
we are still talking
about her.

435
00:20:29,262 --> 00:20:33,093
because Diana has become
an icon.

436
00:20:33,128 --> 00:20:37,236
We're talking about her
because she changed
the rule-book.

437
00:20:37,270 --> 00:20:40,377
She tore out pages
from the dusty old book,

438
00:20:40,411 --> 00:20:43,380
and she rewrote the rules.

439
00:20:43,414 --> 00:20:46,245
She changed the royal family
for ever.

440
00:20:46,279 --> 00:20:51,595
The ghost of Diana
will always haunt
the House of Windsor.

441
00:20:52,975 --> 00:20:54,770
She changed the rules

442
00:20:54,805 --> 00:20:57,083
for the woman
she'd never meet.

443
00:20:57,117 --> 00:20:59,223
She changed the rules
for Catherine

444
00:20:59,258 --> 00:21:01,294
so that she would have
a better life,

445
00:21:01,329 --> 00:21:02,468
a better passage,

446
00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,402
and who ever Harry marries.

447
00:21:05,436 --> 00:21:07,266
She changed the rules
for her, too.

448
00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:11,787
So, in a way,
she's changing the rules
for her children.

449
00:21:11,822 --> 00:21:15,964
Her children, William and Harry,
are her legacy to the world.

450
00:21:17,137 --> 00:21:19,208
They will finish
their mother's work.

451
00:21:19,243 --> 00:21:22,211
We want to represent
exactly what our mother
would have wanted.

452
00:21:22,246 --> 00:21:24,386
Um, how she was
and all those sort of things.

453
00:21:24,421 --> 00:21:27,286
So, therefore,
the charity itself
alone isn't enough

454
00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,047
We want to have this
big concert with full
of energy,

455
00:21:30,081 --> 00:21:32,118
full of, sort of,
fun and happiness

456
00:21:32,152 --> 00:21:33,878
which I knew
she'd have wanted.

457
00:21:33,913 --> 00:21:35,777
And on her birthday as well,
it's going to be the best
birthday she ever had.

458
00:21:35,811 --> 00:21:39,263
And whether we can,
the two of us,
organize it.

459
00:21:39,298 --> 00:21:43,302
We wanted to have the fact
that evening was all about
our mother.

460
00:21:43,336 --> 00:21:46,443
The main purpose
is to celebrate
and have fun.

461
00:21:46,477 --> 00:21:48,099
And to remember her
in a fun way.

462
00:21:48,134 --> 00:21:52,311
It's, the ideas,
we wanted the artists
that our mother really loved

463
00:21:54,209 --> 00:21:56,176
and artists that both
Harry and I enjoy

464
00:21:56,211 --> 00:21:59,594
and, in the middle,
with ballet and

465
00:21:59,628 --> 00:22:01,837
Obviously, she loved
her dancing and her musicals.

466
00:22:01,872 --> 00:22:05,013
So with that, you have got
something different.

467
00:22:05,047 --> 00:22:06,946
It's just not any old concert.

468
00:22:06,980 --> 00:22:09,466
It's going to be different
and it's going to be
interesting.

469
00:22:09,500 --> 00:22:11,330
If it works, it'd be brilliant.
If it doesn't,

470
00:22:12,158 --> 00:22:15,264
we'd be in the country house.

471
00:22:15,299 --> 00:22:16,852
[interviewer] And will we
see you dancing?

472
00:22:17,508 --> 00:22:18,682
Really hope not.

473
00:22:18,716 --> 00:22:20,787
I hope so.
For him, not me.

474
00:22:20,822 --> 00:22:22,651
I hope we could get
a chance to see him.

475
00:22:22,686 --> 00:22:23,997
It would be a terrifying
sight if you do.

476
00:22:28,139 --> 00:22:29,348
[William] She cared,
she cared massively.

477
00:22:29,382 --> 00:22:31,315
We have been left
in no doubt at all,

478
00:22:31,350 --> 00:22:33,352
that we were the most
important thing in her life

479
00:22:33,386 --> 00:22:35,354
and after that,
it was everyone else.

480
00:22:35,388 --> 00:22:37,114
[Harry] Really caring,
so sweet,

481
00:22:37,148 --> 00:22:39,150
and very much missed
by not only us

482
00:22:39,185 --> 00:22:40,566
but I think a lot of people.

483
00:22:51,577 --> 00:22:56,064
[Paul] Thirty six years old,
you don't expect your mother
to die.

484
00:22:56,098 --> 00:23:00,137
Her untimely death
catapulted those boys

485
00:23:00,171 --> 00:23:02,484
into the forefront
of the royal family.

486
00:23:02,519 --> 00:23:05,832
They are royal family's future.

487
00:23:05,867 --> 00:23:10,250
One day we will see
King William
and Queen Catherine

488
00:23:10,285 --> 00:23:11,493
on the throne of England.

489
00:23:12,529 --> 00:23:13,564
And strangely enough,

490
00:23:13,599 --> 00:23:15,739
when William and Harry
came to see me

491
00:23:15,773 --> 00:23:18,569
at Kensington Palace
shortly after their mother died,

492
00:23:18,604 --> 00:23:20,744
I said, "You must
take something.

493
00:23:20,778 --> 00:23:24,575
Take something
which belonged to her
that you can keep safe.

494
00:23:24,610 --> 00:23:26,508
What would you want, William?"
I said.

495
00:23:27,544 --> 00:23:29,994
"I'd like Mummy's Cartier watch.

496
00:23:30,029 --> 00:23:32,203
The one that
Grandpa Spencer
gave to her

497
00:23:32,238 --> 00:23:33,412
for her 21st birthday."

498
00:23:34,930 --> 00:23:38,071
"Okay." I went to the safe
and I got the watch.

499
00:23:38,106 --> 00:23:39,901
"What about you, Harry,
what would you like?"

500
00:23:41,454 --> 00:23:42,938
"I remember," he said,

501
00:23:42,973 --> 00:23:46,425
"when I held Mummy's hand
when I was a small boy,

502
00:23:46,459 --> 00:23:49,945
that ring always hurt me
because it was so big."

503
00:23:51,395 --> 00:23:53,086
"Do you mean
her engagement ring?"

504
00:23:53,121 --> 00:23:54,674
"Yes."

505
00:23:54,709 --> 00:23:59,299
So, I went to the safe
and gave Harry Diana's
engagement ring.

506
00:24:01,474 --> 00:24:06,479
William told Harry
that he was to be
become engaged to Catherine.

507
00:24:06,514 --> 00:24:08,481
Harry said to him,

508
00:24:08,516 --> 00:24:11,450
"Wouldn't it be fitting
if she had Mummy's ring?"

509
00:24:12,140 --> 00:24:13,624
And then one day,

510
00:24:13,659 --> 00:24:16,765
that ring will be sat
on the throne of England.

511
00:24:17,801 --> 00:24:22,253
So, Harry gave up
his precious treasure.

512
00:24:22,288 --> 00:24:24,877
His one thing he kept
from his mother,

513
00:24:24,911 --> 00:24:26,568
he gave to his brother.

514
00:24:27,673 --> 00:24:29,606
That's selfless, kind,

515
00:24:30,503 --> 00:24:32,816
and exactly who Diana was.

516
00:24:34,196 --> 00:24:36,923
Harry has Diana's personality.

517
00:24:36,958 --> 00:24:39,132
William has his father's.

518
00:24:39,167 --> 00:24:41,480
Harry is fun, naughty,

519
00:24:42,342 --> 00:24:43,930
great time out.

520
00:24:43,965 --> 00:24:46,657
William is serious
and studious

521
00:24:47,658 --> 00:24:49,349
and kingly.

522
00:24:49,384 --> 00:24:51,490
Two boys from the same parents.

523
00:24:51,524 --> 00:24:53,768
Two boys,
very different nature.

524
00:24:55,563 --> 00:24:57,634
[William] We shared
a similar feeling of loss

525
00:24:57,668 --> 00:25:00,602
having a loved one,
in my case, a parent,

526
00:25:00,637 --> 00:25:03,536
snatched away
so suddenly.

527
00:25:03,571 --> 00:25:07,540
I, like them, knew
there will always be
a gaping hole

528
00:25:07,575 --> 00:25:09,335
that could never be filled.

529
00:25:09,369 --> 00:25:13,822
I finally got hands on
to a job that I absolutely
adore but it's still hard work

530
00:25:13,857 --> 00:25:16,515
but, I'm better than William
so it's fun.

531
00:25:16,549 --> 00:25:18,033
[chuckles] Yeah.

532
00:25:18,068 --> 00:25:19,621
[interviewer] Have you
been helping him
with the exams?

533
00:25:19,656 --> 00:25:21,036
Oh, yeah. He needs
a lot of help.

534
00:25:21,071 --> 00:25:24,108
It's the RAF way
so you have to help
the army quite a lot.

535
00:25:24,143 --> 00:25:26,663
[interviewer] What has it
come down to, mental
math test?

536
00:25:26,697 --> 00:25:28,285
Yeah, a bit of that,
you know,

537
00:25:28,319 --> 00:25:29,976
future questions,
try to catch him out.

538
00:25:30,011 --> 00:25:31,391
[interviewer] Seven-eights.

539
00:25:31,426 --> 00:25:32,738
-Yeah, exactly, lots of that.
-[interviewer chuckles]

540
00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:36,673
[Paul] The only secret
Diana kept from me

541
00:25:36,707 --> 00:25:40,193
was the Martin Bashir
interview forPanorama.

542
00:25:40,228 --> 00:25:42,023
I had known Martin Bashir
for a long time

543
00:25:42,057 --> 00:25:44,681
and he was one of the men
that I used to bring
into the palace

544
00:25:44,715 --> 00:25:48,167
under a blanket because
he didn't want to be seen
by anyone.

545
00:25:48,201 --> 00:25:49,893
He was never the lover
of the Princess'.

546
00:25:49,927 --> 00:25:52,723
He was just a work associate.

547
00:25:52,758 --> 00:25:56,589
He persuaded the Princess
that she had to have a voice.

548
00:25:56,624 --> 00:25:58,626
She needed to tell her story

549
00:25:58,660 --> 00:26:01,836
and what better vehicle
than Panorama.

550
00:26:04,597 --> 00:26:07,635
I was sent home
on a Sunday afternoon.

551
00:26:07,669 --> 00:26:09,429
"Strange," I thought.

552
00:26:09,464 --> 00:26:11,811
"Why would she be
sending me home?"

553
00:26:11,846 --> 00:26:14,055
"Go and spend some time
with your family.

554
00:26:14,089 --> 00:26:15,919
I am doing nothing
this afternoon.

555
00:26:15,953 --> 00:26:17,610
Don't worry about me."

556
00:26:17,645 --> 00:26:19,716
The minute I had left
the Palace,

557
00:26:19,750 --> 00:26:22,995
in through the back door
comes Martin Bashir
and his camera crew.

558
00:26:23,029 --> 00:26:26,654
And they set up,
the Prince of Wales
sitting room,

559
00:26:26,688 --> 00:26:29,070
which she used
for that interview.

560
00:26:29,104 --> 00:26:30,727
At the age of 19,

561
00:26:31,762 --> 00:26:33,730
you always think
you are prepared
for everything

562
00:26:33,764 --> 00:26:36,733
and you have the knowledge
of what's coming ahead

563
00:26:36,767 --> 00:26:40,184
but, although I was daunted
at the prospect at the time

564
00:26:40,219 --> 00:26:42,670
I thought I had the support
of my husband-to be.

565
00:26:42,704 --> 00:26:45,914
I had no idea
that was being done.

566
00:26:45,949 --> 00:26:47,606
The next morning
we came to work,

567
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,884
I noticed all the furniture
being moved.

568
00:26:49,918 --> 00:26:51,955
"Why have you moved
the furniture?

569
00:26:51,989 --> 00:26:53,750
It's not in the same place."

570
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,718
"Um, I had a dance class.

571
00:26:56,753 --> 00:26:58,271
I had to move the furniture
out of the way

572
00:26:58,306 --> 00:27:00,446
just so we could exercise."

573
00:27:01,102 --> 00:27:03,242
"Strange. Very strange."

574
00:27:03,276 --> 00:27:05,727
She avoided me
for the next two days.

575
00:27:05,762 --> 00:27:07,315
Never spoke to me.

576
00:27:07,349 --> 00:27:09,800
"How strange," I thought,
"she is hiding something."

577
00:27:09,835 --> 00:27:11,906
And then she told me

578
00:27:11,940 --> 00:27:15,910
that she made a recording
with Martin Bashir
for Panorama.

579
00:27:17,118 --> 00:27:18,602
"What have you said?"

580
00:27:18,637 --> 00:27:21,640
"Well, I have just put
the record straight,"
she said.

581
00:27:23,296 --> 00:27:24,746
We didn't know
what she said

582
00:27:25,782 --> 00:27:26,679
until we saw it.

583
00:27:26,714 --> 00:27:29,440
Well, it was three of us
in this marriage.

584
00:27:29,475 --> 00:27:30,649
So, it was a bit crowded.

585
00:27:33,030 --> 00:27:37,759
Thirty one million people
stopped in their tracks
on that Monday night

586
00:27:39,140 --> 00:27:42,522
and couldn't believe
what they were seeing.

587
00:27:42,557 --> 00:27:46,699
The Princess of Wales
baring her heart
on national television.

588
00:27:46,734 --> 00:27:48,839
We couldn't take
our eyes away from it.

589
00:27:48,874 --> 00:27:50,669
We couldn't believe
what we were hearing.

590
00:27:50,703 --> 00:27:53,499
"There are three people
in my marriage.

591
00:27:53,533 --> 00:27:56,675
My husband doesn't fit
for the top job.

592
00:27:56,709 --> 00:28:00,540
I don't, I think it would
bring him limitations.

593
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,372
She was honest,
open and frank.

594
00:28:04,406 --> 00:28:05,787
"Did you love James Hewitt?"

595
00:28:06,788 --> 00:28:08,859
Yes, I did. Yes.

596
00:28:08,894 --> 00:28:11,482
[Martin] Were you unfaithful?

597
00:28:11,517 --> 00:28:13,692
Yes, I adored him.
Yes, I was in love
with him.

598
00:28:15,832 --> 00:28:16,867
But I was very let-down.

599
00:28:19,352 --> 00:28:23,218
[Paul] It was all there.
I couldn't believe it.

600
00:28:23,253 --> 00:28:26,739
It was too raw
for most people

601
00:28:27,844 --> 00:28:30,847
and an embarrassment
for the royal family.

602
00:28:30,881 --> 00:28:32,987
That was the final straw.

603
00:28:33,021 --> 00:28:37,716
That was the straw
that broke the back
of the House of Windsor.

604
00:28:38,786 --> 00:28:42,168
From that moment on,
Diana was outcast.

605
00:28:42,203 --> 00:28:44,412
Her titles were stripped.

606
00:28:44,446 --> 00:28:46,725
She was no longer
prayed for in church.

607
00:28:47,277 --> 00:28:48,761
She was on her own.

608
00:28:48,796 --> 00:28:51,177
[Martin] You do live
very much on your own,
don't you?

609
00:28:51,212 --> 00:28:54,249
Yes, I am.
I don't mind that, actually.

610
00:28:54,284 --> 00:28:56,355
You know, people think
at the end of the day,

611
00:28:56,389 --> 00:28:57,770
a man is the only answer.

612
00:28:57,805 --> 00:29:00,704
Actually, a fulfilling job
is better for me.

613
00:29:03,258 --> 00:29:04,915
Living and working
for the Queen

614
00:29:04,950 --> 00:29:08,574
was far more easy
than living with Diana.

615
00:29:08,850 --> 00:29:10,714
With the Queen,

616
00:29:10,749 --> 00:29:14,753
we always knew that her life
ran with routines and protocols
and time tables.

617
00:29:14,787 --> 00:29:16,789
We knew that the breakfast
would be at nine o'clock,

618
00:29:16,824 --> 00:29:19,447
lunch will be at one o'clock,
tea would be five o'clock

619
00:29:19,481 --> 00:29:20,862
and dinner would be at 8:15.

620
00:29:20,897 --> 00:29:22,243
It was the same every day.

621
00:29:22,277 --> 00:29:24,763
It's Groundhog Day
at Buckingham Palace.

622
00:29:25,660 --> 00:29:28,249
With Diana,
anything could happen.

623
00:29:28,283 --> 00:29:31,217
No routines,
no time tables, nothing.

624
00:29:31,252 --> 00:29:33,288
We might skip lunch,
we might be shopping.

625
00:29:33,323 --> 00:29:35,532
We could be doing anything
during the day.

626
00:29:35,566 --> 00:29:38,846
So, life was more exciting
with Diana.

627
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,951
But the difference between
the two worlds was,

628
00:29:40,986 --> 00:29:43,402
I always knew
where I was with the Queen.

629
00:29:43,436 --> 00:29:45,749
I always knew
where the line
was in the sand.

630
00:29:45,784 --> 00:29:48,787
I knew when not
to cross that line.

631
00:29:48,821 --> 00:29:50,789
I knew to stay and bow.

632
00:29:51,479 --> 00:29:52,929
I was the servant.

633
00:29:52,963 --> 00:29:57,312
But also a friend
and confidant to the Queen
but in a different way.

634
00:29:57,347 --> 00:29:59,142
With Diana, it was,

635
00:29:59,176 --> 00:30:02,214
"Come and sit down.
Have a cup of tea with me.
Have a cup of coffee.

636
00:30:02,248 --> 00:30:03,905
Don't just stand there."

637
00:30:03,940 --> 00:30:07,219
I used to stand every morning waiting for the Princess to come through

638
00:30:07,253 --> 00:30:09,290
from her dressing room.

639
00:30:09,324 --> 00:30:10,843
And every morning,
standing there

640
00:30:10,878 --> 00:30:14,467
with a half a grapefruit
and a cup of black coffee.

641
00:30:14,502 --> 00:30:17,643
I'll bow and say,
"Good morning,
Your Royal Highness."

642
00:30:17,677 --> 00:30:21,474
"For goodness' sake,"
she'd say, "when are you
going to stop doing that?

643
00:30:21,509 --> 00:30:23,269
It's just you and me
in the room.

644
00:30:23,304 --> 00:30:27,170
Sit down and have a cup
of coffee with me and tell me
what's been going on."

645
00:30:27,929 --> 00:30:29,068
That was her world.

646
00:30:29,103 --> 00:30:31,968
Diana did things differently.

647
00:30:32,002 --> 00:30:33,659
There was a memo that came
from Buckingham Palace.

648
00:30:33,693 --> 00:30:38,802
"Diana, when you are in public, please wear a hat and please wear gloves

649
00:30:38,837 --> 00:30:42,806
'cause you are touching
the public and you might
catch something.

650
00:30:42,841 --> 00:30:47,915
And I am not too sure about
you touching those people
with HIV and AIDS.

651
00:30:47,949 --> 00:30:49,261
Are you sure you are safe?"

652
00:30:50,952 --> 00:30:52,885
We lived in a world
of ignorance.

653
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,095
We lived in a world
where people were not educated.

654
00:30:56,130 --> 00:30:57,925
They didn't know.

655
00:30:57,959 --> 00:31:01,618
The Princess introduced me
to the first person to
die with HIV and AIDS.

656
00:31:01,652 --> 00:31:06,623
I didn't know anything
about it until she showed me
that world.

657
00:31:06,657 --> 00:31:10,316
She would sit
and hold people's hands
and counseled them.

658
00:31:10,351 --> 00:31:13,147
So life with Diana
was very different.

659
00:31:14,838 --> 00:31:17,599
Life with Diana was 24/7.

660
00:31:17,634 --> 00:31:20,844
My wife said,
"There were three people
in my marriage, too."

661
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,296
Because Diana is always there.

662
00:31:24,330 --> 00:31:25,884
She used to say,
"She's your baby."

663
00:31:25,918 --> 00:31:28,196
I said, "Yes, she is my baby. She needs me.

664
00:31:28,231 --> 00:31:30,440
She needs me to be there."

665
00:31:30,474 --> 00:31:32,511
My wife had two children.

666
00:31:33,236 --> 00:31:34,789
The Princess had no one.

667
00:31:34,823 --> 00:31:37,136
Her children were away
at boarding school

668
00:31:37,171 --> 00:31:39,138
and she had no husband.

669
00:31:39,173 --> 00:31:41,658
Occasionally,
she had a male companion.

670
00:31:41,692 --> 00:31:43,936
But they came
and they went.

671
00:31:43,971 --> 00:31:46,145
I was responsible
for that, too.

672
00:31:46,180 --> 00:31:47,871
I was the go-between.

673
00:31:47,906 --> 00:31:51,530
I was the one that went out
with my car,

674
00:31:51,564 --> 00:31:53,946
rode people back
to Kensingston Palace

675
00:31:53,981 --> 00:31:56,397
in the back seat of my car
under the blanket.

676
00:31:57,674 --> 00:32:01,505
Just to give Princess
some love.

677
00:32:01,540 --> 00:32:04,543
All she was ever looking for
was to be loved.

678
00:32:05,164 --> 00:32:06,372
She used to say to me,

679
00:32:06,407 --> 00:32:08,996
"All I want, Paul,
is to someone,

680
00:32:09,030 --> 00:32:10,859
a man to put arms
around me

681
00:32:10,894 --> 00:32:12,654
and say, 'I love you.'

682
00:32:12,689 --> 00:32:14,449
That's not too much
to ask, is it?"

683
00:32:15,347 --> 00:32:17,901
And that's what
she was searching for.

684
00:32:17,936 --> 00:32:20,145
Towards the end
of her life, of course,

685
00:32:20,179 --> 00:32:22,181
she found her soulmate.

686
00:32:22,216 --> 00:32:25,081
Her soulmate was Hasnat Khan,

687
00:32:25,115 --> 00:32:26,461
the heart surgeon.

688
00:32:30,914 --> 00:32:34,883
Hasnat Khan had been
the Princess' companion
for over two years.

689
00:32:34,918 --> 00:32:36,920
Nobody knew about Hasnat Khan.

690
00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:40,061
That was not played out
on the world stage.

691
00:32:41,097 --> 00:32:43,444
Whereas, after they
had broken up,

692
00:32:44,376 --> 00:32:47,103
the Princess was invited
to the south of France

693
00:32:47,137 --> 00:32:48,587
by the Mohamed Al-Fayeds.

694
00:32:50,106 --> 00:32:52,246
She met Dodi Al-Fayed.

695
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:57,699
Did you know that the romance of Princess and Dodi Al-Fayed

696
00:32:57,734 --> 00:33:01,117
was 30 days from beginning
to the end.

697
00:33:02,049 --> 00:33:03,912
It only lasted 30 days.

698
00:33:04,948 --> 00:33:07,571
I spoke to her regularly
when she was away.

699
00:33:08,089 --> 00:33:10,057
"Have you seen Hasnat?"

700
00:33:10,091 --> 00:33:12,818
I said, "Yes, I went
for a drink with him
last night."

701
00:33:12,852 --> 00:33:14,716
"What does he think
about me being here

702
00:33:14,751 --> 00:33:17,064
in South of France
with Dodi Al-Fayed?"

703
00:33:17,098 --> 00:33:18,651
"Well, he's not too pleased."

704
00:33:19,687 --> 00:33:22,138
"Has he seen the pictures
in the papers?"

705
00:33:22,172 --> 00:33:25,106
"Yes, he has
because you know
his routine.

706
00:33:25,141 --> 00:33:28,627
You know, every morning
he goes to the corner shop

707
00:33:28,661 --> 00:33:31,561
and sees the press.
You know that.

708
00:33:31,595 --> 00:33:33,804
And I know that's what
you are doing.

709
00:33:33,839 --> 00:33:37,670
You are manipulating
the world's media by having
these pictures taken

710
00:33:37,705 --> 00:33:39,983
to show Hasnat
who you are with."

711
00:33:40,604 --> 00:33:41,364
It is sort of a,

712
00:33:42,951 --> 00:33:44,574
"Are you jealous?

713
00:33:44,608 --> 00:33:47,335
Do you mind?
Do you care?

714
00:33:48,164 --> 00:33:49,475
Are you bothered?"

715
00:33:49,510 --> 00:33:52,513
That's what Diana
was saying to Hasnat Khan

716
00:33:52,547 --> 00:33:55,481
through those pictures
in the world's media.

717
00:33:55,516 --> 00:33:57,690
And, of course,
until Hasnat was bothered

718
00:33:57,725 --> 00:34:00,003
And I didn't find out
recently

719
00:34:00,038 --> 00:34:04,628
that he called her
the day before she died
on her mobile phone.

720
00:34:05,802 --> 00:34:09,150
He called her to try
and patch up their relationship.

721
00:34:10,531 --> 00:34:12,119
Had she returned to London,

722
00:34:12,740 --> 00:34:13,844
I truly believe

723
00:34:13,879 --> 00:34:16,261
the romance between
Hasnat Khan and the Princess

724
00:34:16,295 --> 00:34:17,676
would have been rekindled.

725
00:34:18,849 --> 00:34:20,161
It was too strong.

726
00:34:20,196 --> 00:34:21,507
It was too deep.

727
00:34:22,094 --> 00:34:23,889
They were true soulmates.

728
00:34:26,512 --> 00:34:29,446
I said to the Princess,
"When are you going home?"

729
00:34:29,481 --> 00:34:31,138
"I'm coming home
on Sunday, Paul.

730
00:34:31,172 --> 00:34:32,691
I'm just bored.

731
00:34:32,725 --> 00:34:34,175
I'm on this boat.

732
00:34:34,210 --> 00:34:36,212
It's freezing cold downstairs.

733
00:34:36,246 --> 00:34:39,077
It's boiling hot on deck.

734
00:34:39,111 --> 00:34:41,148
I'm sending these pictures out

735
00:34:41,182 --> 00:34:43,011
and nobody is coming
back to me.

736
00:34:43,046 --> 00:34:46,360
I'm having no communication.
I need to come home.

737
00:34:46,394 --> 00:34:49,673
But the only way home
is on the Harrod's jet.

738
00:34:49,708 --> 00:34:52,228
The only way
I can get home
is via Paris

739
00:34:52,262 --> 00:34:54,471
because Dodi
has to go to Paris

740
00:34:54,506 --> 00:34:56,197
to do some business
with his father."

741
00:34:57,198 --> 00:34:59,062
"How is he with you?"

742
00:34:59,097 --> 00:35:00,305
"Oh, he's very spoiling.

743
00:35:00,339 --> 00:35:02,341
He's very generous,"
the Princess said.

744
00:35:02,376 --> 00:35:05,068
"He's given me a necklace, some earrings.

745
00:35:05,103 --> 00:35:06,690
He's given me a watch."

746
00:35:06,725 --> 00:35:09,141
I said, "You know
what's coming next,
don't you?

747
00:35:09,176 --> 00:35:10,522
He's gonna give you
a ring.

748
00:35:10,556 --> 00:35:12,420
"Do you think so?"
"Oh, yes.

749
00:35:12,455 --> 00:35:14,388
He'll give you a ring.

750
00:35:14,422 --> 00:35:17,080
But remember
when he gives it to you,

751
00:35:17,115 --> 00:35:20,428
put it on the forth finger
on your right hand."

752
00:35:21,774 --> 00:35:23,949
"Oh. Yes.

753
00:35:23,983 --> 00:35:26,089
Fourth finger, right hand."

754
00:35:26,124 --> 00:35:27,194
I can hear her saying it.

755
00:35:27,228 --> 00:35:29,265
"Fourth finger, right hand."

756
00:35:29,299 --> 00:35:31,129
Yes, that's the thing to do.

757
00:35:31,163 --> 00:35:33,200
I'll do that. You always
know what to do.

758
00:35:33,234 --> 00:35:34,822
That's exactly what I'll do."

759
00:35:35,236 --> 00:35:36,617
So, if there was a ring,

760
00:35:37,135 --> 00:35:39,137
which I very much doubt,

761
00:35:39,171 --> 00:35:43,106
it would have been placed
on the fourth finger
of the right hand.

762
00:35:47,973 --> 00:35:51,321
Fate in the wrong place
at the wrong time.

763
00:35:52,978 --> 00:35:55,394
That tragic accident
should have never happened.

764
00:35:55,429 --> 00:35:57,741
But that's what
it must be.

765
00:35:57,776 --> 00:36:00,365
It must be an accident.

766
00:36:00,399 --> 00:36:03,022
What confuses me,
of course, is the fact that

767
00:36:03,851 --> 00:36:05,473
ten months before that

768
00:36:05,508 --> 00:36:08,200
the Princess had written
me a letter.

769
00:36:08,235 --> 00:36:10,444
And in that letter,
she said,

770
00:36:10,478 --> 00:36:13,654
in her own handwriting,
on her own stationary,

771
00:36:14,206 --> 00:36:15,932
her words were,

772
00:36:17,485 --> 00:36:21,006
"The next few months
are the most difficult
in my life.

773
00:36:22,110 --> 00:36:26,908
I fear that my husband
is planning an accident

774
00:36:26,943 --> 00:36:31,119
in my car-head injuries

775
00:36:32,776 --> 00:36:33,777
in order

776
00:36:35,193 --> 00:36:36,366
that he can remarry."

777
00:36:38,126 --> 00:36:40,163
Now when you read
those words,

778
00:36:40,198 --> 00:36:42,200
the prophesy
that Princess made

779
00:36:42,234 --> 00:36:44,547
ten months before she died
that came true

780
00:36:45,064 --> 00:36:47,032
is rather eerie.

781
00:36:47,066 --> 00:36:50,242
But I just think it was just
paranoia at the time.

782
00:36:50,277 --> 00:36:53,314
We checked the brakes
on the car several times.

783
00:36:53,349 --> 00:36:54,833
We pulled the floor boards up

784
00:36:54,867 --> 00:36:58,216
in her sitting room
to look for listening devices.

785
00:36:58,250 --> 00:36:59,769
We didn't find anything.

786
00:36:59,803 --> 00:37:02,392
But then, we didn't know
what we were looking for.

787
00:37:03,290 --> 00:37:05,326
So I have no idea

788
00:37:05,361 --> 00:37:06,603
whether people were listening,

789
00:37:06,638 --> 00:37:09,157
people were following,
people were watching.

790
00:37:09,813 --> 00:37:10,711
I have no idea.

791
00:37:11,470 --> 00:37:14,335
All I can believe
is that no one

792
00:37:14,853 --> 00:37:16,199
would sign an order

793
00:37:16,234 --> 00:37:18,857
to murder the mother
of the future king of England.

794
00:37:20,238 --> 00:37:22,067
Who would want to murder Diana?

795
00:37:23,724 --> 00:37:24,828
I can't believe that.

796
00:37:29,592 --> 00:37:32,526
It's now the 31st of August,

797
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:37,047
in the late hours,
I just returned
from the theater.

798
00:37:37,082 --> 00:37:38,980
We'd been to Beauty and Beast,

799
00:37:39,015 --> 00:37:40,499
rather ironic really.

800
00:37:40,534 --> 00:37:43,364
Princess used to say,
"That's the story of my life."

801
00:37:45,124 --> 00:37:46,367
And the phone rings.

802
00:37:46,402 --> 00:37:47,541
It was Lucia Flecha de Lima,

803
00:37:47,575 --> 00:37:51,338
the Brazilian Ambassador's wife
in Washington.

804
00:37:51,372 --> 00:37:53,340
She said, "Paul,
CNN has just reported

805
00:37:53,374 --> 00:37:55,307
the Princess
is in a accident
in Paris.

806
00:37:55,342 --> 00:37:57,171
Can you find out more?

807
00:37:57,205 --> 00:38:01,002
You have her mobile number.
I don't have it. Ring her."

808
00:38:01,037 --> 00:38:05,006
So I put the phone down
and immediately rang
the Princess' mobile phone.

809
00:38:05,041 --> 00:38:06,939
And it rang, and rang
and rang.

810
00:38:06,974 --> 00:38:10,288
I thought that's strange
because in those days,

811
00:38:10,322 --> 00:38:12,290
mobiles were in their infancy.

812
00:38:12,324 --> 00:38:15,189
But she always carried it
with her.

813
00:38:15,223 --> 00:38:18,123
I didn't know
that it was just
ringing out

814
00:38:18,157 --> 00:38:21,333
on a marble top
inside the suite

815
00:38:21,368 --> 00:38:22,541
at the Ritz in Paris.

816
00:38:22,576 --> 00:38:25,095
I had no idea
where the phone was.

817
00:38:26,338 --> 00:38:27,650
Is she hadn't taken it
with her?

818
00:38:30,169 --> 00:38:34,139
Right, I must get
into work mode

819
00:38:34,173 --> 00:38:36,037
and find out more about
this accident.

820
00:38:36,072 --> 00:38:38,385
So, I went up to her apartment

821
00:38:38,419 --> 00:38:41,388
and waited for news
to come through Balmoral.

822
00:38:41,422 --> 00:38:44,908
And the first we heard
the Princess had head injuries

823
00:38:44,943 --> 00:38:47,394
and broken her arm.

824
00:38:47,428 --> 00:38:49,706
And at two o'clock
in the morning,
we heard

825
00:38:49,741 --> 00:38:53,710
that the injuries were more
serious than they first thought.

826
00:38:53,745 --> 00:38:55,988
And it wasn't
until three o'clock

827
00:38:56,023 --> 00:38:58,336
that they told us
that the accident
had been fatal.

828
00:38:59,198 --> 00:39:01,131
And during this time,

829
00:39:01,166 --> 00:39:04,342
my thoughts were,
"I must get to Paris."

830
00:39:04,376 --> 00:39:06,999
Because if she
is incapacitated
in any way,

831
00:39:07,034 --> 00:39:08,587
she'll need me

832
00:39:08,622 --> 00:39:10,969
to support her,
to take care of her,

833
00:39:11,003 --> 00:39:12,764
to keep her safe.

834
00:39:12,798 --> 00:39:17,424
And when I heard
that the accident
was fatal,

835
00:39:17,458 --> 00:39:20,599
I thought there's even
more reason to be there.

836
00:39:20,634 --> 00:39:24,327
I do need to keep her safe.
I need to protect her.

837
00:39:24,362 --> 00:39:25,708
I need to look after her.

838
00:39:27,399 --> 00:39:31,369
And so I booked my flight
through New York.
It was still open.

839
00:39:31,403 --> 00:39:33,854
And I was on the first flight to Paris next morning.

840
00:39:35,303 --> 00:39:37,754
So, early Sunday morning
I arrived in Paris

841
00:39:37,789 --> 00:39:41,344
and was taken straight
by the British Ambassador
taken to hospital.

842
00:39:42,483 --> 00:39:46,384
And I remember
going into the elevator

843
00:39:46,418 --> 00:39:48,696
and the elevator doors
opening on the first floor

844
00:39:48,731 --> 00:39:50,491
and looking down
the corridor and seeing

845
00:39:50,526 --> 00:39:53,494
and two guards stood
outside of her door.

846
00:39:53,529 --> 00:39:55,531
And I thought
that's where she is.

847
00:39:55,565 --> 00:40:00,363
So I was led not to that room but to the room next door.

848
00:40:00,398 --> 00:40:04,022
Nurse Humbert
was the French nurse
on duty.

849
00:40:04,056 --> 00:40:09,027
Small, petite nurse
that could only speak
broken English.

850
00:40:09,061 --> 00:40:11,339
And she came to me
and said, "Paul,

851
00:40:11,374 --> 00:40:13,618
would you like to go
and see the Princess?"

852
00:40:13,652 --> 00:40:14,412
"Yes, I would."

853
00:40:15,861 --> 00:40:19,451
I'm going to describe
to you what I saw.

854
00:40:19,486 --> 00:40:23,317
As the door opened,
it was a very warm night
in Paris,

855
00:40:23,351 --> 00:40:25,423
the room was stifling hot.

856
00:40:26,596 --> 00:40:30,531
I noticed two people
in the corner.

857
00:40:30,566 --> 00:40:33,431
Shady looking characters
behind the screen.

858
00:40:33,465 --> 00:40:35,743
Later I realize,
they were the undertakers.

859
00:40:37,711 --> 00:40:38,919
And I approached the bed,

860
00:40:39,782 --> 00:40:41,335
it was a hospital bed,

861
00:40:41,369 --> 00:40:43,544
and the Princess
was covered
in a white sheet.

862
00:40:45,443 --> 00:40:47,514
Her head and her feet
were visible.

863
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,449
And her hands
were on top
of the sheet.

864
00:40:52,622 --> 00:40:54,452
And I approached
the bed and,

865
00:40:57,282 --> 00:40:59,802
I stared for a while

866
00:41:00,906 --> 00:41:03,046
in disbelief.

867
00:41:03,081 --> 00:41:07,430
And I watched the fan
whirring on the side
of the bed table.

868
00:41:08,431 --> 00:41:10,951
A fan was moving
on the bed side table

869
00:41:10,985 --> 00:41:12,400
and as it moved,

870
00:41:12,435 --> 00:41:14,506
it moved the Princess' hair

871
00:41:14,541 --> 00:41:16,646
and I could see
her eyelashes moving.

872
00:41:17,578 --> 00:41:19,407
And I took her hand
and I said,

873
00:41:20,236 --> 00:41:20,995
"Wake up.

874
00:41:22,894 --> 00:41:24,309
You are asleep, aren't you?

875
00:41:25,344 --> 00:41:26,345
[whispers] Wake up."

876
00:41:27,519 --> 00:41:28,486
And nothing happened.

877
00:41:30,626 --> 00:41:32,490
She was soft and warm.

878
00:41:35,769 --> 00:41:38,461
Not dead at all,
to me.

879
00:41:41,015 --> 00:41:43,535
It was quite a while
before I realized

880
00:41:43,570 --> 00:41:45,606
that she was actually
not with us

881
00:41:46,469 --> 00:41:48,160
and then the floodgates opened.

882
00:41:48,195 --> 00:41:53,476
I am not ashamed to say
that I think they could
hear me in the next building.

883
00:41:54,581 --> 00:41:55,823
I was grief-stricken.

884
00:41:57,135 --> 00:41:58,999
But I...
[sighs]

885
00:41:59,033 --> 00:42:00,552
...I pulled myself together

886
00:42:00,587 --> 00:42:02,658
and realized
I had this job to do

887
00:42:06,558 --> 00:42:08,664
and remembered
what she told me
about death.

888
00:42:09,527 --> 00:42:10,528
She said,

889
00:42:11,183 --> 00:42:13,289
"At that moment
when you pass,

890
00:42:13,323 --> 00:42:15,636
your spirit lifts
from your body

891
00:42:15,671 --> 00:42:18,639
and you hang around
for a while and watch.

892
00:42:19,537 --> 00:42:21,608
So I said,
"You are here,
aren't you?

893
00:42:22,609 --> 00:42:23,541
You are here.

894
00:42:24,783 --> 00:42:25,957
You are watching me.

895
00:42:28,097 --> 00:42:29,547
You are watching
what I'm doing.

896
00:42:31,549 --> 00:42:34,862
And I'll try and do it
the way you'd want me
to do it.

897
00:42:36,208 --> 00:42:37,485
So I stayed with her.

898
00:42:39,453 --> 00:42:42,525
And it wasn't such a harrowing experience after that

899
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:44,596
because I realized

900
00:42:44,631 --> 00:42:47,599
it was cathartic in a way
that I could help her.

901
00:42:47,634 --> 00:42:49,532
I could bring her back

902
00:42:50,671 --> 00:42:53,605
as a royal princess.

903
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:57,678
I could bring her back
in the start the way
she should be brought back.

904
00:42:57,713 --> 00:43:00,647
And I stayed
and I came home with her

905
00:43:00,681 --> 00:43:05,099
on the plane and brought
her home into Central London.

906
00:43:05,134 --> 00:43:07,412
What was moving
about that night was,

907
00:43:08,724 --> 00:43:11,658
all the cars were stopped
on the motor way

908
00:43:12,831 --> 00:43:17,215
and people were standing
on the Central Road waiting

909
00:43:17,249 --> 00:43:18,699
for the hearse to come by.

910
00:43:19,666 --> 00:43:20,701
I couldn't believe it.

911
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:23,877
Standing hundreds
of them,

912
00:43:23,911 --> 00:43:26,534
on gangways,
on bridges,

913
00:43:26,569 --> 00:43:29,676
by the side of the road.
No cars moving.

914
00:43:29,710 --> 00:43:31,505
People had got
out of their cars.

915
00:43:33,887 --> 00:43:35,509
It's the most incredible thing.

916
00:43:37,407 --> 00:43:40,583
And we brought her home
and I came home

917
00:43:42,689 --> 00:43:46,071
and I had a little walk
in the gardens
of Kensington Palace

918
00:43:46,106 --> 00:43:47,521
and saw people

919
00:43:47,555 --> 00:43:49,592
beginning to bring
the floral tributes.

920
00:43:51,042 --> 00:43:53,631
Maybe just 20 or 30 of them.

921
00:43:54,079 --> 00:43:55,805
Maybe a 100.

922
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:59,671
Nothing like
what would happen
that week.

923
00:43:59,706 --> 00:44:03,054
I think actually that rocked
the royal family.

924
00:44:03,088 --> 00:44:04,711
It shocked them to the core.

925
00:44:06,471 --> 00:44:08,231
They didn't understand
what was happening.

926
00:44:09,439 --> 00:44:10,751
They didn't understand

927
00:44:12,615 --> 00:44:17,413
that the world
could love a woman
whom they have never met.

928
00:44:17,447 --> 00:44:19,933
They didn't understand
why the people were crying
in the street

929
00:44:21,279 --> 00:44:23,419
They thought the world
had gone mad

930
00:44:23,453 --> 00:44:26,698
that everybody
had gone hysterical.

931
00:44:26,733 --> 00:44:30,288
The Queen's first thought
was to keep her
grandchildren safe

932
00:44:30,322 --> 00:44:32,600
and so she kept them
at Balmoral

933
00:44:32,635 --> 00:44:34,706
and looked after them
behind those walls.

934
00:44:34,741 --> 00:44:37,605
That's what she thought
was the best thing for them.

935
00:44:38,676 --> 00:44:41,264
There was no flag flying
at Buckingham Palace.

936
00:44:42,334 --> 00:44:44,267
It seemed the royal family
didn't care.

937
00:44:45,061 --> 00:44:46,649
They wanted rid of Diana.

938
00:44:48,168 --> 00:44:50,446
They stripped her
of royal titles

939
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:52,310
and she was an outcast.

940
00:44:52,344 --> 00:44:53,621
Now what to do about it.

941
00:44:54,830 --> 00:44:56,452
This has never
happened before.

942
00:44:56,486 --> 00:44:57,729
It was unprecedented.

943
00:44:57,764 --> 00:45:00,214
There was no rule-book
to look to,

944
00:45:00,249 --> 00:45:02,596
to say what shall we do next.

945
00:45:02,630 --> 00:45:05,737
Every body was feeling
the wave very carefully.

946
00:45:05,772 --> 00:45:07,912
It was a very sensitive time.

947
00:45:09,154 --> 00:45:11,950
The royal family
were almost on the brink

948
00:45:11,985 --> 00:45:13,607
of losing the throne.

949
00:45:16,472 --> 00:45:19,475
That would be generated
throughout the week

950
00:45:19,509 --> 00:45:21,615
with hysteria, with emotion.

951
00:45:27,448 --> 00:45:30,693
First I want to pay tribute
to Diana myself.

952
00:45:31,694 --> 00:45:34,662
She was an exceptional
and gifted human being.

953
00:45:35,353 --> 00:45:37,527
In good times and bad,

954
00:45:37,562 --> 00:45:40,841
she never lost her capacity
to smile and laugh

955
00:45:40,876 --> 00:45:44,396
nor to inspire others
with her warmth and kindness.

956
00:45:45,673 --> 00:45:47,779
I admired and respected her.

957
00:45:47,814 --> 00:45:50,782
Her energy and commitment
to others

958
00:45:50,817 --> 00:45:53,785
and especially for her devotion
to her two boys.

959
00:45:55,753 --> 00:45:57,478
This week at Balmoral,

960
00:45:57,513 --> 00:45:59,964
we all have been trying
to help William and Harry

961
00:45:59,998 --> 00:46:03,036
come to terms
with devastating loss

962
00:46:03,070 --> 00:46:05,210
for they and the rest of us
have suffered.

963
00:46:07,143 --> 00:46:09,974
No one who knew Diana
will never forget her.

964
00:46:11,078 --> 00:46:13,805
Millions of others
who never met her

965
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,601
but felt they knew her,
remember her.

966
00:46:18,085 --> 00:46:19,673
I, for one believe,

967
00:46:19,707 --> 00:46:22,641
there are lessons
to be drawn
from her life

968
00:46:22,676 --> 00:46:25,852
and from the extraordinary
and moving reaction
to her death.

969
00:46:27,577 --> 00:46:31,271
I share in your determination
to cherish her memory.

970
00:46:38,105 --> 00:46:40,418
I remember asking,

971
00:46:40,452 --> 00:46:42,834
sending a message back
to Buckingham Palace to say,

972
00:46:42,869 --> 00:46:46,320
"Would it possible
for the Princess
to come home

973
00:46:46,355 --> 00:46:47,805
for one last night?"

974
00:46:49,461 --> 00:46:50,566
And the Queen said,

975
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,396
"It was a good opportunity

976
00:46:53,431 --> 00:46:55,778
to extend
the funeral procession

977
00:46:55,813 --> 00:46:58,367
because two million people
are coming to London

978
00:46:58,954 --> 00:47:01,439
to watch the spectacle."

979
00:47:02,889 --> 00:47:05,684
So she said it was a very
good idea, yes.

980
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:07,410
So the Princess came home.

981
00:47:08,032 --> 00:47:09,550
And I asked all the family

982
00:47:09,585 --> 00:47:11,587
if they would like to come
and pay their respects

983
00:47:11,621 --> 00:47:13,831
and stay with me
on a vigil.

984
00:47:15,384 --> 00:47:16,799
Nobody came.

985
00:47:19,595 --> 00:47:23,910
So, I'm sat with Diana
at Kensington Palace.

986
00:47:25,946 --> 00:47:26,913
And I said to her...

987
00:47:27,983 --> 00:47:29,363
[scoffs]

988
00:47:29,398 --> 00:47:30,813
"Isn't this appropriate?

989
00:47:31,849 --> 00:47:33,436
It's just me and you.

990
00:47:33,471 --> 00:47:34,886
The way it's always been.

991
00:47:34,921 --> 00:47:37,578
Just you and me
rattling around
inside the palace.

992
00:47:38,407 --> 00:47:41,548
So, I suppose,

993
00:47:41,582 --> 00:47:44,585
I better pull up a chair
and have a chat."

994
00:47:46,001 --> 00:47:47,761
And I remember pulling up
a chair and,

995
00:47:50,005 --> 00:47:53,284
leaning on her coffin

996
00:47:53,974 --> 00:47:55,907
covered in the royal standard

997
00:47:57,460 --> 00:47:59,393
and talking to her
all night long.

998
00:48:02,431 --> 00:48:04,433
I talked about all her friends.

999
00:48:04,467 --> 00:48:08,851
I talked about all
the outpouring of love
from people.

1000
00:48:08,886 --> 00:48:11,785
I said, "Funny, if you could
see this but then I suppose
you can see this.

1001
00:48:13,373 --> 00:48:15,271
And what would you have said?

1002
00:48:15,306 --> 00:48:16,894
You wouldn't have understood,
would you?"

1003
00:48:18,343 --> 00:48:19,724
And then morning came.

1004
00:48:20,967 --> 00:48:21,968
And,

1005
00:48:22,969 --> 00:48:25,488
I could hear the crunch

1006
00:48:25,523 --> 00:48:29,113
of the wheels of gun carriage
on the gravel outside

1007
00:48:29,147 --> 00:48:31,322
and I knew they have come
to take her away.

1008
00:48:34,290 --> 00:48:36,223
I didn't want to let go.

1009
00:48:40,020 --> 00:48:43,092
So those soldiers
in their big boots

1010
00:48:43,127 --> 00:48:45,336
stomped down in my corridor,

1011
00:48:46,061 --> 00:48:47,372
into the room,

1012
00:48:48,408 --> 00:48:49,857
and lifted her

1013
00:48:53,240 --> 00:48:54,932
and she was beginning
her journey.

1014
00:49:24,547 --> 00:49:26,377
I remember bowing
for the last time

1015
00:49:32,107 --> 00:49:32,935
and saying,

1016
00:49:35,179 --> 00:49:36,974
"Goodbye, Your Royal Highness."

1017
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:40,908
Because,

1018
00:49:42,048 --> 00:49:44,567
that in my eyes,

1019
00:49:44,602 --> 00:49:47,225
she was always
Your Royal Highness.

1020
00:49:50,056 --> 00:49:51,954
And then I followed
the procession

1021
00:49:51,989 --> 00:49:55,509
to Westminster Abbey
and sat in the choir stalls

1022
00:49:55,544 --> 00:49:56,959
and I said to the usher,

1023
00:49:56,994 --> 00:49:58,547
"You brought us
to the wrong place.

1024
00:49:58,581 --> 00:50:00,238
We shouldn't be sat here.

1025
00:50:00,273 --> 00:50:02,102
The Queen's sitting there

1026
00:50:02,137 --> 00:50:03,931
and the Prime Minister
sitting there.

1027
00:50:03,966 --> 00:50:05,347
Why are we siting here?"

1028
00:50:05,381 --> 00:50:08,557
And they said,
"That's where
your place is."

1029
00:50:09,627 --> 00:50:12,457
So, I watched the royal family come down the aisle

1030
00:50:12,492 --> 00:50:15,943
and watched the Queen Mum
on her sticks

1031
00:50:15,978 --> 00:50:17,600
and she nodded
in my direction.

1032
00:50:17,635 --> 00:50:19,464
The Queen bowed
in my direction

1033
00:50:19,499 --> 00:50:21,915
because I knew them all,
I knew these people

1034
00:50:23,848 --> 00:50:26,506
And, Earl Spencer

1035
00:50:28,853 --> 00:50:31,614
delivered his speech.

1036
00:50:36,102 --> 00:50:37,896
I stand before you today

1037
00:50:37,931 --> 00:50:40,175
the representative
of a family in grief,

1038
00:50:40,968 --> 00:50:43,109
in a country in mourning

1039
00:50:43,143 --> 00:50:45,249
before a world in shock.

1040
00:50:46,698 --> 00:50:48,079
"We are all united

1041
00:50:48,114 --> 00:50:51,738
not only in our desire
to pay our respects to Diana

1042
00:50:51,772 --> 00:50:54,154
but rather in our need
to do so.

1043
00:50:55,190 --> 00:50:57,778
Today is our chance
to say thank you

1044
00:50:57,813 --> 00:51:00,126
for the way
you brightened our lives,

1045
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:03,646
even though God granted you
but half a life.

1046
00:51:03,681 --> 00:51:06,097
We will all feel
cheated always

1047
00:51:06,132 --> 00:51:08,755
that you were taken
from us so young

1048
00:51:08,789 --> 00:51:10,619
and yet we must learn
to be grateful

1049
00:51:10,653 --> 00:51:12,862
that you came along at all.

1050
00:51:12,897 --> 00:51:17,143
Only now that you are gone
do we truly appreciate
what we are now without

1051
00:51:17,177 --> 00:51:20,042
and we want you to know
that life without you

1052
00:51:20,077 --> 00:51:21,940
is very, very difficult.

1053
00:51:21,975 --> 00:51:25,944
For all the status,
the glamour,
the applause,

1054
00:51:25,979 --> 00:51:30,328
Diana remained
throughout a very
insecure person at heart,

1055
00:51:30,363 --> 00:51:34,125
almost childlike in her desire to do good for others

1056
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:35,609
so she could release herself

1057
00:51:35,644 --> 00:51:38,198
from deep feelings
of unworthiness

1058
00:51:38,233 --> 00:51:41,960
of which her eating disorders
were merely a symptom.

1059
00:51:41,995 --> 00:51:44,342
She would want us today
to pledge ourselves

1060
00:51:44,377 --> 00:51:46,275
to protecting
her beloved boys,

1061
00:51:46,310 --> 00:51:49,278
William and Harry,
from a similar fate

1062
00:51:49,313 --> 00:51:52,350
and I do this here, Diana,
on your behalf.

1063
00:51:52,385 --> 00:51:55,215
We will not allow them
to suffer the anguish

1064
00:51:55,250 --> 00:51:58,356
that used regularly
to drive you
to tearful despair.

1065
00:51:59,771 --> 00:52:02,878
And beyond that,
on behalf of your mother
and sisters,

1066
00:52:02,912 --> 00:52:05,674
I pledge that we,
your blood family,

1067
00:52:05,708 --> 00:52:09,574
will do all we can
to continue the imaginative
and loving way

1068
00:52:09,609 --> 00:52:13,164
in which you were steering these two exceptional young men

1069
00:52:13,199 --> 00:52:17,168
so that their souls
are not simply immersed
by duty and tradition

1070
00:52:17,203 --> 00:52:19,791
but can sing openly
as you planned.

1071
00:52:20,930 --> 00:52:23,519
Above all, we give thanks
for the life of a woman

1072
00:52:23,554 --> 00:52:25,797
I am so proud to be able
to call my sister,

1073
00:52:26,453 --> 00:52:29,249
the unique, the complex,

1074
00:52:29,284 --> 00:52:32,010
the extraordinary
and irreplaceable Diana

1075
00:52:32,045 --> 00:52:35,221
whose beauty,
both internal
and external,

1076
00:52:35,255 --> 00:52:37,947
will never be extinguished
from our minds."

1077
00:52:41,296 --> 00:52:43,470
[loud applause]

1078
00:53:18,264 --> 00:53:19,989
And I sat and I listened.

1079
00:53:22,129 --> 00:53:25,995
And I thought, "Good speech
but where were you?

1080
00:53:27,273 --> 00:53:29,965
Where were you
when she needed you?

1081
00:53:29,999 --> 00:53:33,486
Where were you
when she wanted sanctuary
for her boys?

1082
00:53:36,868 --> 00:53:42,391
I couldn't believe
the torrent of abuse

1083
00:53:42,426 --> 00:53:44,186
which came out of his mouth,

1084
00:53:44,221 --> 00:53:47,051
vitriol directed
towards the Queen.

1085
00:53:48,846 --> 00:53:50,779
I was confused.

1086
00:53:50,813 --> 00:53:52,159
"Why would he say that?

1087
00:53:52,194 --> 00:53:56,923
Why would he do that
in the House of God
at his sister's funeral?

1088
00:53:56,957 --> 00:54:00,340
Why would he slap
the Queen, his godmother?

1089
00:54:00,375 --> 00:54:01,790
Why would he do that?"

1090
00:54:03,240 --> 00:54:06,450
I looked at the Queen
and she looked at me

1091
00:54:06,484 --> 00:54:08,210
as if to say, "Mm.

1092
00:54:09,315 --> 00:54:11,524
We know the truth."

1093
00:54:11,558 --> 00:54:13,871
Unfortunately, the world
didn't know the truth.

1094
00:54:14,216 --> 00:54:16,011
But we did.

1095
00:54:16,045 --> 00:54:19,428
-[woman 1] Charles.
-Thank you so much.
Thank you.

1096
00:54:19,463 --> 00:54:21,292
[woman 2] Harry,
I'm so sorry.

1097
00:54:21,327 --> 00:54:22,983
[woman 3] William, William.

1098
00:54:24,226 --> 00:54:25,952
Thank you so much.
Thank you.

1099
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:30,474
Thank you so much.

1100
00:54:34,201 --> 00:54:35,789
[press calling out William]

1101
00:54:37,170 --> 00:54:38,344
[woman 3] We love you!

1102
00:54:39,448 --> 00:54:42,969
[Paul] Then on the royal train with the royal family,

1103
00:54:43,003 --> 00:54:48,319
with Charles and Harry and William to North Hampton.

1104
00:54:48,354 --> 00:54:51,702
We arrived and had lunch
with Earl Spencer
in the dinning room.

1105
00:54:53,151 --> 00:54:54,463
I sat next to Prince Charles.

1106
00:54:54,498 --> 00:54:56,879
Who put me next
to Prince Charles?

1107
00:54:56,914 --> 00:54:59,503
I have no idea. He talked
about the garden.

1108
00:54:59,537 --> 00:55:02,437
How wonderful his begonias
were this time of the year.

1109
00:55:02,471 --> 00:55:04,335
"You really must come down
to Highgrove, Paul,

1110
00:55:04,370 --> 00:55:05,888
I have never seen
the Alliums

1111
00:55:05,923 --> 00:55:09,513
with such a color
and such a spread
across the garden."

1112
00:55:09,547 --> 00:55:12,723
I thought,
"We are at a funeral here.

1113
00:55:12,757 --> 00:55:15,208
We are not
on gardener's world."

1114
00:55:18,418 --> 00:55:21,732
Someone came in and whispered into Charles Spencer's ear.

1115
00:55:23,354 --> 00:55:24,355
He got up.

1116
00:55:24,390 --> 00:55:26,253
"Diana's arrived everybody."

1117
00:55:27,289 --> 00:55:28,877
So we all got up,

1118
00:55:29,878 --> 00:55:31,673
in to the hallway

1119
00:55:31,707 --> 00:55:36,885
and the Princess's coffin
had just arrived
at the front door.

1120
00:55:36,919 --> 00:55:40,060
Charles Spencer proceeds
down the steps

1121
00:55:40,095 --> 00:55:42,235
and they open the back door.

1122
00:55:42,269 --> 00:55:44,720
He rips off the royal Standard

1123
00:55:44,755 --> 00:55:48,483
and replaces it
with the Spencer Standard.

1124
00:55:48,517 --> 00:55:52,728
He turns to William and Harry
and everyone stood there

1125
00:55:52,763 --> 00:55:54,627
and says,
"She's a Spencer now."

1126
00:55:55,731 --> 00:55:59,770
They lifted her high
and took her

1127
00:55:59,804 --> 00:56:02,393
on this procession
towards the island.

1128
00:56:02,428 --> 00:56:05,362
They built a small pond, too,
across the lake.

1129
00:56:05,396 --> 00:56:09,020
So we all followed
across the bridge

1130
00:56:09,055 --> 00:56:12,541
to a small clearing
where a hole had been dug.

1131
00:56:13,300 --> 00:56:15,406
And into the hole,

1132
00:56:15,441 --> 00:56:19,859
the soldiers lowered
the coffin and then left

1133
00:56:19,893 --> 00:56:22,413
and left us stood around

1134
00:56:22,448 --> 00:56:24,588
to say a few prayers
and to say goodbye.

1135
00:56:26,452 --> 00:56:28,902
And I remember Mrs. Shand Kydd
standing beside me

1136
00:56:29,903 --> 00:56:32,906
and I can see the tears

1137
00:56:32,941 --> 00:56:37,773
I'd be wearing her cross
and chain which she gave me
the night before

1138
00:56:37,808 --> 00:56:40,638
and I thought
now is a good time
to give it back.

1139
00:56:40,673 --> 00:56:42,985
So I took it off
and gave it to her

1140
00:56:43,020 --> 00:56:44,470
and she turned to me
and said,

1141
00:56:46,161 --> 00:56:48,266
"At least I had her
for nine months.

1142
00:56:49,578 --> 00:56:52,339
Those nine months,
she was mine."

1143
00:56:53,686 --> 00:56:56,378
I thought, "What a sad thing
for a mother to say

1144
00:56:57,828 --> 00:57:00,175
at her daughter's funeral."

1145
00:57:00,209 --> 00:57:04,351
"Come on, boys," she said,
"leave Paul, leave him here
for a little while.

1146
00:57:04,386 --> 00:57:08,459
He's got a few things
to say. Let him, let him
stay for a while."

1147
00:57:08,494 --> 00:57:11,911
So Prince Charles
and William and Harry,
they left the island

1148
00:57:11,945 --> 00:57:13,326
and left me standing there.

1149
00:57:14,223 --> 00:57:15,501
And I was the last one.

1150
00:57:16,709 --> 00:57:18,711
With the sunlight
coming through the trees,

1151
00:57:19,539 --> 00:57:21,472
I looked down
into the hole

1152
00:57:23,336 --> 00:57:24,820
and there's a metal plate.

1153
00:57:24,855 --> 00:57:27,478
It didn't say,
Her Royal Highness,
The Princess of Wales,

1154
00:57:27,513 --> 00:57:31,378
It said, "Diana,
Princess of Wales."

1155
00:57:32,518 --> 00:57:35,521
I thought why couldn't they,
in the last moment,

1156
00:57:35,555 --> 00:57:38,489
have given her back
her title.

1157
00:57:38,524 --> 00:57:40,318
It wouldn't have hurt anyone

1158
00:57:41,527 --> 00:57:44,012
So I picked up some earth
and threw it into the hole.

1159
00:57:49,500 --> 00:57:52,745
And that's, that's where
my life was.

1160
00:57:57,335 --> 00:57:59,855
And I could remember
begging her saying,

1161
00:58:01,443 --> 00:58:02,996
"Why didn't you take me
with you?

1162
00:58:04,550 --> 00:58:06,483
You should have taken me
with you.

1163
00:58:08,450 --> 00:58:12,661
Because my reason gone,

1164
00:58:13,593 --> 00:58:15,008
I have no place now.

1165
00:58:15,768 --> 00:58:16,838
and I knew it,

1166
00:58:17,597 --> 00:58:19,426
I knew they'd come for me

1167
00:58:20,531 --> 00:58:22,533
because I was the last person

1168
00:58:24,190 --> 00:58:26,537
to witness a certain part
of history.

1169
00:58:40,447 --> 00:58:43,450
My favorite memory of Princess
is a very personal one

1170
00:58:43,485 --> 00:58:46,074
because I was the only
witness to it

1171
00:58:46,108 --> 00:58:50,181
and it was a regular occurrence
and it used to thrill me.

1172
00:58:50,216 --> 00:58:54,841
I used to hear
the piano being played
in the drawing room.

1173
00:58:54,876 --> 00:58:57,050
And the Princess
was an accomplished pianist.

1174
00:58:59,087 --> 00:59:03,885
Her favorite piece of music
was " Rachmaninoff:
Piano Concerto No. 2,"

1175
00:59:05,265 --> 00:59:07,302
which if you
were a film historian,

1176
00:59:07,336 --> 00:59:08,441
you would know
it was played throughout

1177
00:59:08,475 --> 00:59:11,444
David Lean's film,
Brief Encounter.

1178
00:59:11,478 --> 00:59:12,583
One of our favorite films.

1179
00:59:12,618 --> 00:59:15,310
We'd sit and watch
that black and white movie

1180
00:59:15,344 --> 00:59:17,070
with a box of tissues
between us.

1181
00:59:17,105 --> 00:59:20,142
-What do you believe?
-That it's the same with you.

1182
00:59:20,177 --> 00:59:21,592
That you have fallen
in love, too.

1183
00:59:24,181 --> 00:59:28,944
And I would hear these chords
and know she was up there.

1184
00:59:28,979 --> 00:59:30,601
I'd sneak up the staircase

1185
00:59:30,636 --> 00:59:33,224
and peep in through
drawing room door

1186
00:59:33,259 --> 00:59:36,331
and watch that vision

1187
00:59:36,365 --> 00:59:39,645
with wet hair scraped back
over her head

1188
00:59:39,679 --> 00:59:44,166
and a white toweling robe
tied tight, head back

1189
00:59:44,201 --> 00:59:47,307
playing "Rachmaninoff:
Piano Concerto."

1190
00:59:49,793 --> 00:59:50,932
That was magic.

1191
00:59:53,935 --> 00:59:55,592
When that happened,

1192
00:59:56,523 --> 00:59:58,318
when we lost Diana,

1193
00:59:59,457 --> 01:00:01,183
the world stopped

1194
01:00:01,218 --> 01:00:04,497
just for one brief second.

1195
01:00:04,531 --> 01:00:07,776
Everybody took a deep breath
in disbelief.

1196
01:00:09,675 --> 01:00:10,814
What was that?

1197
01:00:11,642 --> 01:00:14,300
If you could distill
that essence,

1198
01:00:14,852 --> 01:00:15,957
that was Diana.

1199
01:00:17,061 --> 01:00:18,649
But it was something
more than that.

1200
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:22,584
I think it's what people call

1201
01:00:23,067 --> 01:00:24,551
magic.

1202
01:00:24,586 --> 01:00:26,588
[slow instrumental
music playing]




